Basic Volleyball Rules and Regulations For Scoring, Rotation Serving and the Court
Beginner players get their frequently asked questions answered since they're trying to understand the basic volleyball rules when starting their playing career.
These questions usually concern queries about what the various lines on the court mean, what's legal and allowed when contacting the ball, and what is illegal when touching or not touching the ball when competing, how does scoring work, and much more.
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Discover the essential aspects of playing volleyball with this comprehensive guide to the basic volleyball rules about the volleyball court, the lines on the court and the volleyball net.
Discover the basic volleyball rules starting from the number of players allowed on both teams, what the role of a captain is and what is the libero position about
Get a better understanding of what a game, a set, and what a match is in addition to how points are scored
Get a better grasp of what to expect during a volleyball match from the point scoring process to what actions are considered legal and what are illegal.
Even though there are different disciplines of the sport like two person vs. two person, four player vs four player, these rules focus on the six person vs. six person style normally played in high school and collegiate matches and competition.
Basic Volleyball Rules about the Court, the Net, the Antenna
Two antennae are placed on each end of the net over the sidelines marking the vertical boundary of the court
Basic Volleyball Officiating and Rules about the Officials
Basic Volleyball Rules: The first referee
calls the game from an elevated stand watching for common volleyball faults, calls volleyball fouls, assigns points and sideouts.
The first referee
calls the game from an elevated stand watching for common volleyball faults
calls volleyball fouls, assigns points and sideouts
final decision maker on questionable plays
assigns violations and issues red or yellow cards
calls timeouts when requested properly
watches the top of the net for adults during play
runs the coin toss between captains and instructs them about basic pre-game rules and rituals
A set is a game played between two teams until one team scores 25 points first
The winner of a match is the first team to win two sets out of three or three sets out of five
If playing a five set match, a team can lose 2 sets in a row but must win the remaining three sets to be declared winner of the match
At the end of playing four sets, if both teams are tied at two sets apiece a tie break set is played. The winner of the tie break set, is the winner of the match
Tie break matches are played to 15. The team that scores 15 points first, wins the match
In some competitions, when the first team scores seven points, the teams must switch sides before play is allowed to continue
Teams use rally scoring during competition where the team that wins the rally regardless of who serves wins a point
Basic Volleyball Rules: Teams use rally scoring during competition where the team that wins the rally regardless of who serves wins a point (White and Blue Review)
Basic Volleyball Rules Legal Volleyball Hits
A player can score a point by contacting the ball with any part of their body,
Basic Volleyball Rules Can a player contact the ball more than once?
Only one consecutive contact is permitted per player.
A player cannot contact the ball twice in a row.
The ball can contact the net and be played off the net during a rally
A player in the backrow can attack hit a ball as long as they take off from behind the ten foot line
A backrow hitter can land in front of the ten foot line as long as they have contacted the ball before they land in the front row
A setter can attack hit a ball as long as she is in the front row
it lands anywhere outside of the opposing team's court without being touched or landing on a boundary line
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